Improvement in steam-washers



C..C. CARTER.

STEAM-WASHERS. -No.181, 039. v Patented Aug. 15,1 876.

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WITNESSES:

N-FETERS PHOTO-UTHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C- UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CYRUS o. CARTER, or NEELEYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN STEAM-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,039, dated August 15, 1876; application filed May 27, 1876.

improved apparatus for washing clothes by steam, which shall be so constructed as to enable the clothes to be washed evenly and thoroughly, with much less fuel and in much less time than when they are washed in the ordinary way.

Theinvention consistsin an improved steamwasher, formed of the flat base or bottom, the

' inclined sides, the V-shaped concave top, the

rounded and inclined ends, and the vertical plates, and provided with the holes to adapt it for use, as hereinafter fully described.

A isthe base of the steamer, which is made of the same shape as the boiler in which it is to be used, butsmaller. The sides B of the steamer incline inward, and its top C is made with a V-shaped concavity. The ends D are rounded,

incline inward, and project above the top 0,

and to their edges are attached the edges of the vertical plates E, the lower ends of which are made V-shaped, and are attached to the end edges of the concaved V-shaped top C, thus forming end spouts to the steamer. In the sides B, ends 1), top C, and plates E are formed holes I) d c 6, through which the steam escapes into and through all parts of the clothes.

In using the steamer water is put into it and heated. The steamer is then placed in the boiler, the clothes are put around and over it, and in a few minutes the clothes will be throughly and evenly cleaned, and may be wrung out to dry, the peculiar form of the steamer causing the steam to pass through all parts of the said clothes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An improved steanrwasher, formed of the flat base or bottom A, the inclined sides B, the V-shaped concave top C, the rounded and inclined ends D, and the vertical plates E, and provided with the holes 0 dtc e, to adapt it for use, substantially as herein shown and described.

CYRUS C. CARTER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES Z. TUTTLE, Louis H. DUTRO. 

